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@alexhyland: I have honstly, actually, really met two evangelical vegans so far. And only one was looking forward to running inquisition and meat eaters holocaust in the future. The rest is cool. I did meet some paleos too and they are weirder. While vegans seem high on estrogen and low on testosterone, mostly come as girls, the paleos are weirdest I have seen of all dietary sects. Both groups are just low on carbs, their stomachs are either occupied processing kilos of vegetables or protein. I get veganism, I’ll never get paleo. That’s fricking insane.

@icowan: let me be clear in order to put my money where my mouth is in terms of intellectually charged discussion. I am presenting my own world view based on the stuff I have read and watched. To me, using a helmet is best of both worlds. I do not condone laws making helmets obligatory because I jnow you cannot save uneducated people from themselves and I’d hate someone forcing people into education. One could potentially increase safety by introducing obligatory cycling license, where tou are taught basics of haning a bicycle, but then who will control whether people are taught correctly? Are people who get a driving license skilled enough for handling a car in critical situations? Off course not. So I give it a pass. Natural selection is like laws of physics. It just happens.
One important factor of riding in a helmet when it comes to rotational forces is that a good helmet will provide less friction against the ground where analogicallt your head would be a grippy bike tyre and pisspot kind of hard shell would be a slippery surface. In coming years science hopefully will figure out that factor vs leverage of the force that helmets thickness increases. Now that goes out of the window in the case of crappy soft helmets (talking about hitting asphalt) where I could easily see that they act like a grippy surface where combined with increased leverage, they do pose bigger danger for concussion than no helmet at all. So we are left only with skull fracture. For the record a 6-7 yr old kid at my daughters school hit his head against a pole after riding a slide that was currently covered in ice. He fractured his skull. Slide was 2m tall at around 30degree angle, and ice sheet behind it was neary flat, 2m long. So it didn’t take him that much speed and distance to achieve that.
To sum up: to me personally, wearing a good helmet is reducing the injury. Striving for elimination of it, or hugely reducing it, is a utopia.

@icowan: I see Hovdens daily on the cycling paths an I am aware of the company for several years now. Three people at my work own them, you can get up to 70% off from insurance company. One colleague got a full refund for one unit.
I wasn't arguing for obligatory helmets. Swedes did a research why people don't use helmets and most answers were: "they are uncomfortable and they destroy my hair". So you can't save people from themselves. Belief that people don't wear them out of informed choice is a lunacy.
Helmets protect from skull fractures, aside from cuts and bruises, you are running some sort agenda against yourself. I have colleagues at ER who can describe all sorts of gruesome cases, especially roadies - I stick to my facts. If I was to talk of marketing driven fear mongering I'd bring up MIPS as a prime example. And that is something supposedly protecting you from concussions. What saves you a lot of pain is learning to ride a bicycle, and most commuters have as much will to do it as to educate themselves against head injuries. In advent of E-bike era, and there are already plenty of them on bike paths (including hacked ones, including fkng cargo bicycles - God kill them now) that is a serious problem.
I'm done here. If you don't want to wear head protection be my guest, just be careful spreading these bollocks.

@Waldon83: After listening to his podcast on JRE I'm going to often roam the nearby grassfields in autumn to get some stores for the winter... I also ordered Lion's Mane from his company Host Defense. I totally drunk the cool aid.

@icowan: except his lecture is a horseshit. Legislating fear, heh, as if there wasn't enough fear mongering without legislation, like MIPS or neck braces, or full body armors. For a more extreme example, isn't seat belts in cars legislating fear? I will tell you what is the ultimate solution to this: common sense. wait wait, weren't you talking about it and I thought this lecture lacked it?! So there is no common sense, you have to make one yourself, in fact you do all the time, it's just that sometimes it coheres with the sense of other people, so that pool of beliefs and common opinions, laws forms something that can be called common sense. Actualyl I believe Polish language has a much better word common sense and the direct translation would be: "healthy reasoning". So I personally believe within my reasoning, is that if there is a law that comes at a low cost to my well being, with a potential reward (not fracturing my skull) I just go with it. I don't go against it just for the sake of being awake as fuk because that is a rather dubious part of thought patterns responsible for critical thinking. It ounds paranoic by critical thinking requires critical thinking and thinnking outside of the box is in the box of being outside of the box. So check shit after you heard it. if it's too good to be true it probably isn't true. An idea to criticize helmet because methods of certification testing for them are outdated, is rather silly.

@Samuli-1: It's not something unheard of, the stories about people riding a few laps after a slam, coming down to the bottom of the lift station, sitting down to eat something and passing out. My friends kid hit his head into the steering wheel of a bumper kart at amusement park, they calmed him down, then he took a few more rides, vomited straight after sitting in the car on the way home and passed out. They drove to Emergency, concussion right there. Me, hitting head first, going home, mild head ache, feeling tired as hell on commute to work, riding flat asphalt, feeling as if it was a climb, then during following week: sudden memory loss every now and then, finding myself sitting in front of the computer and going: what am I doing here, I've just been in bed?! Did I left my kid at pre school today? Then I wonder how many folks take a digger at the bike park and drive home alone. YUCK!

@Flowcheckers: what? Just because they don’t do it doesn’t mean they don’t advise it. If you don’t service any fork out of the box, you can only put it on your ignorance, which may be fine but your fork still can be fkd